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  Tsugaru  

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
津軽 [Tsugaru]			Yokosuka K K	7/1939	5.6.1940	10.1941	sunk 29.6.1944

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	4000
Displacement normal, t	4400
Length, m	113.6 pp 121.0 wl 124.5 oa
Breadth, m	15.6
Draught, m	4.92
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 4 Kampon boilers
Power, h. p.	9000
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	9000(10)
Armament	2 x 2 - 127/40 89-shiki, 2 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 600 mines, 1 catapult, 1 seaplane (E7K, E8N, F1M, E13A, E14Y)
Electronic equipment	93-shiki sonar
Complement	445

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Project history

Built under 3rd Supplementary programme of 1937. Development of Okinoshima, differed by armament structure: at the expense of fitting of lighter dual-purpose 127mm guns instead of 140mm, mine capacity has been raised from 500 to 600. Standard seaplane was E7K.

Modernizations

1943-1944: - 2 x 2 - 25/60, 1 seaplane, 1 catapult; + 7 x 3 - 25/60 96-shiki, 4 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3-shiki 1-go radar (presumably), 93-shiki hydrophone

Naval service

5.8.1943 Tsugaru was damaged by US submarine Silversides, 21.6.1944 she was damaged by Dutch submarine KXIV, 29.6.1944 she was sunk W off Morotai by US submarine Darter.